On 12/03/2010 04:09 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> We're working on this. It won't always be practical, however; in the >> current case, for example, you need specific hardware to test mdadm. > > Uh, this is md, not dm, you don't need very special HARDWARE (basically only > 2 HDDs, which do not even have to be identical, and you might even get away > with only 1 for testing, with absymal performance of course), you do need a > special setup though, which means repartitioning, and so isn't practical to > test on a production machine which isn't already set up that way. > > Kevin Kofler >
For non-boot devices, loopback works. You only need the hardware if you
are testing boot time capabilities (which, admittedly, is the far more
important aspect of testing for this package).
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